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Mellissa Huber is a fashion historian specializing in twentieth-century dress. She is Associate Curator at The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she has co-curated the exhibitions Women Dressing Women (2023) and In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), and contributed to some of the museum’s most visited shows including Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty (2023); Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination (2018); Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016); Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016); Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style (2015); China: Through the Looking Glass (2015); Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire (2014); Charles James: Beyond Fashion (2014); and Punk: Chaos to Couture (2013). Mellissa received her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a minor in Art History. She holds an MA in Costume Studies from New York University, and a certificate in Curating Fashion from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She lectures regularly and is the educational liaison for The Costume Institute.